Description A number of works in this anthology of Cajun French poetry treat the expulsion of Acadian French settlers from Novia Scotia beginning in 1755, known as the Grand Dérangement. Many of the poems testify […]
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England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and British Punk
Description The best overview of punk’s emergence, with a focs on UK bit also taking in the US. Savage locates the impulses and aesthetics that informed punk in their historical context to explain why the […]
The Enlightenment legacy is under siege. Defend it.
Description Linker defines Enlightenment legacies as “individualism, international commerce and trade, moral cosmopolitanism, freedom of the press and a culture of publicity, technological modernity, the valorization of expertise” and defends them against conservative and anti-globalist […]
On the Shores of Politics [Au bords du politique]
Description Argues that political realism is a utopian belief and proposes that the true meaning of politics is based on the organization of dissent, or the righting of wrongs. Rancière offers “le politique” (the masculine […]
L’indisable et l’obscène : Flaubert, Sade et la loi. A propos de Bouvard et Pécuchet
Description Argues that Gustave Flaubert’s unfinished satirical novel Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881) is more transgressive in its un-making of the concept of law and order than in the works of his literary model Sade. According […]
Intersections. A Reading of Sade with Bataille, Blanchot, and Klossowksi
Description Argues that Sade undermines hierarchical distinctions which, according to Gallop, are the foundations of Western philosophy. In his works, Sade deconstructs sexual hierarchies and conventions, gender binarism, as well as the distinction between various […]
Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
Description The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The actual number is […]
Slave Biographies, Atlantic Database Network
Description Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network is an open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. It includes the names, ethnicities, skills, occupations, and illnesses of […]
Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies (ESSSS)
Description The ESSSS project, directed by Jane Landers and administered at Vanderbilt University, digitally preserves endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to Africans and African-descended peoples in slave societies. The ESSSS Digital Archive contains over […]
The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Laws
Description Jenny Martinez argues that the foundation of the movement that we know today as human rights was a product of one of the nineteenth century’s central moral causes: the movement to ban the international […]